In few places, avalanches can trigger in the old snow. Circumvent snowdrift accumulations.
Avalanche danger above 2000m is moderate, below that altitude danger is low. In few places, an avalanche can be triggered by large additional loading as a slab avalanche. Danger zones are mostly small, occur in all aspects, hard to recognize even for the practiced eye. Fresh and older drifts on some NW/SE facing ridgeline slopes can be easily triggered as a small slab by minimum additional loading, these are easy to recognize, releases remain small-sized. On extemely steep slopes small loose-snow avalanches are possible. Isolated small glide-snow avalanches are possible.
Snowpack
Atop a hardened crust and on high-altitude shady slopes in wind-protected terrain, there is still loose snow atop round crystals. In some places, winds from varying directions have transported the snow and blanketed layers of loose fresh snow on shady slopes or older surface hoar which is prone to triggering. On steep shady slopes the old snowpack fundament is expansively metamorphose (faceted crystals) and can in isolated cases be triggered. On sunny slopes up to 2400m there is no longer an area-wide cohesive snowpack fundament. In addition, on sunny slopes faceted layers near surface-near crusts have been generated. Where a slab has formed atop this, it is prone to triggering. On East/West/South facing slopes the snowpack in early morning bears a thin melt-freeze crust.
Tendency
No significant change in danger levels anticipated.
Avalanche danger is low. Triggering a small slab is possible in only few places, most endangered are shady slopes in very steep terrain above 2000m. Small-sized danger zones occur on very steep NW/SE facing slopes above 2200m and are easy to recognize for the practiced eye. Here, avalanches can often be triggered by minimum additional loading but the releases remain small. In isolated cases a small glide-snow avalanche is possible. Isolated small naturally triggered glide-snow avalanches possible.
Snowpack
Thin snowdrift accumulations cover weak layers and surface hoar on shady or loose snow. In addition, on sunny slopes, faceted crystals near surface-near crusts have generated. Where a slab has been generated atop this, it can be triggered. The markedly below-average old snowpack fundament consists of several crusts of faceted crystals but is all-in-all very compact and does not tend towards fracture propagation. On east/west/south facing slopes the snowpack bears a thin melt-freeze crust in early morning.
